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Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo Photo credit: MessageLabs silicon.com took a trip to Bletchley Park to see the rebuilt Colossus machine used to break the German Enigma code during World War II. See more pictures here and check out the video of former spy Tony Sale who rebuilt... [27 Mar 2008]
Editor's Blog: Time for 'listed' computers?
Comment You can see some of the photos of Bletchley and the Colossus here and there's a fascinating video starring a rebuilt Colossus and the man who rebuilt it, which I'd also urge you to watch. Ancient even.silicon.com has been to visit Bletchley Park... [20 Mar 2008]
Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine
Photo The machine pictured here was painstakingly rebuilt over 14 years by computer expert and former spy Tony Sale, who collected valves from decommissioned BT exchanges. This is the rebuilt Colossus Mk II computer at Bletchley Park's National Museum of... [18 Mar 2008]
German beats Colossus codecracking computer
News Anthony Sale, the head of the team which rebuilt Colossus, said the transmitted text had been encrypted using a Lorenz teleprinter cipher machine, the same type of machine which was used by Germany for high-level communications in WWII. [19 Nov 2007]
Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years
Photo The rebuilt Colossus will be put to work on intercepted radio messages transmitted by radio amateurs in Paderborn, Germany, which have been scrambled by a machine used by the German high command in wartime. [16 Nov 2007]
Cult coffee pot sold to Germans
News When XCoffee was phased out, two lab workers rebuilt the system to work on the world wide web. A £25 coffee machine which grew to cult status on the web has been sold to a German internet company for £3350. [14 Aug 2001]
